The Immortals of Meluha

I now have 3 books in my shelf to read: The Immortals of Meluha, The secret of the Nagas and Breaking India. Reading books is not what I do when I find time. Even though I like to do that, somehow I couldn’t make it a habit. I rather browse internet articles.

I started reading the first one. It is an easy one. But, I should admit it is not up to its hype. Although a fiction, I don’t like the way facts have been twisted. IMO one shouldn’t give wrong definitions to suite the story. To give you an example, word pandit doesn’t come from word Pandya. But the author says “In fact the word pandit comes from Pandya …”. Fact?? It is a lie. And I couldn’t stop laughing when I read – ‘Har Har Mahadev’ means ‘everyone is Mahadev’. Joke of the century! The author messed this by mixing Hindi and Sanskrit. There are a few more like these.

I know you can create your own fiction by saying Parvathi is god-daughter of Parvateshwar, create your own stories of Ram, Nagas etc., but I don’t like the way author is fooling people with these wrong definitions.

Yet to complete this book. Lets see how many more to come.

The Immortals of Meluha